I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
Poohba wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
That should be all it takes for mail local to the machine. Fedora doesn't accept outside email without a change to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.
In article 1180645929.28415.79.camel@rob-campbell.com, Poohba fedora-list@redhat.com wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
You don't need to restart sendmail for changes to the aliases file. Do you have sendmail setup completely? It doesn't come configured for incoming email.
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:21 +0000, Rick Ellis wrote:
In article 1180645929.28415.79.camel@rob-campbell.com, Poohba fedora-list@redhat.com wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
You don't need to restart sendmail for changes to the aliases file. Do you have sendmail setup completely? It doesn't come configured for incoming email.
I get email and have been for years. I am just trying to add an alias now for the first time.
At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent to the aliases. If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
mail -s test username some text. Ctrl-D RETURN
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent to the aliases. If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
mail -s test username some text. Ctrl-D RETURN-- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/
stat=User Unknown
Poohba wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent to the aliases. If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
mail -s test username some text. Ctrl-D RETURN-- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/
stat=User Unknown
Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file?
Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message or just the number of aliases processed?
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Poohba wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted sendmail. What else should I be doing?
Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent to the aliases. If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
mail -s test username some text. Ctrl-D RETURN-- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/
stat=User Unknown
Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file?
Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message or just the number of aliases processed?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
The username is the actual user. There were no errors with newaliases. /etc/aliases: 81 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 830 bytes total
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